Abstracts Q

My communication will be from the perspective of
someone who experienced political struggle with Guattari. In Psychoanalysis and
transversality, two texts will be studied: The nine thesis of leftist
opposition, by which we declared that we do not share the analysis of the
French communist party about the classes assemblage in France and in the world,
and urged to change this analysis of political struggle. The second text will
be Machine and structure which opens up a big path om the side of the official
marxism of that time, that is the marxism of Louis Althusser. We said that
there is not a last overdetermination in infrastructure, that revolution can
come from minor problems making their trajectory in society. Then I shall
examine the « machine de guerre » concept as worldwide nomadic organisation of
all minor subjects that capitalism tries but does not manage to incorporate for
its own sake. Last I shall come back on the molecular revolution and on the
slogan of 68 created by Guattari: « We are all groupuscules" In the whole
paper, the practical experience in political groups with Guattari, will be
examined, as well as the concepts developed wiyj reference to practice, trying
to think the relation between thought and practice.

Anne Querrien is sociologist and political scientist
by education, activist by practice. She participate with Felix Guattari in the
foundation of CERFI, centre d’études, de recherches et de formation
institutioonnelles, and in the creation of the journal Recherches in 1965. She
was coeditor of research and practive journals Education Permanente and Vivre
en France from 1968 until 1972. Full time in CERFI from 1972 until 1979 she
participated in research on collelctive services, specially school and training
activities, participative urbanism. From 1985 until 2010 she was the editor of
the journal Les Annales de la Recherche urbaine. Since 2000 she is member of
the editorial board of the journal Multitudes, of which she is co-editor since
2008. Since 2010 she is also member of the editorial board of the journal
Chimères, founded by Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari in 1986. She has
published a lot of papers in all the journals mentionned here, but also in
others, related to education, training, urbanism, feminism. She is the author
of « L’école mutuelle, une pédagogie trop efficace ? », Les empêcheurs de
penser en rond/Editions du Seuil, Paris, 2004.

This paper focuses on the airport as a site of both
violence and resistance for gender nonconforming and transgender travelers. I make
use of Deleuze and Guattari’s notions of (1) “assemblage” to discuss the
airport as a gathering of networks, agents, and machines that are both
productive and destructive and (2) “the war machine” to examine the resistance
strategies deployed by those subjected to gendered security apparatuses when
passing through borders. In examining how hostility towards gender
transgression changes or intensifies during moments of nationalism, racism, and
geopolitical violence, I will engage with Deleuze and Guattari’s work to ask
broader questions: What can the experiences of gender-variant and transgender
individuals tell us about policing and surveillance in a post-9/11 era? What
happens when those who may not clearly fit binaristic gender categories pass
through – or attempt to pass through – borders? And how does the nation-state
respond to national subjects who deviate?

Christine Quinan teaches in the Gender Studies
Programme at Utrecht University, the Netherlands, and works at the intersection
of postcolonial studies and gender/sexuality studies. Christine is currently at
work on a project that investigates gender policing and surveillance in a
post-9/11, postcolonial/neocolonial era and the effects this has on
gender-nonconforming and transgender bodies and lives. Christine’s broad
teaching and research interests include gender studies, postcolonial studies,
quee r theory, contemporary literature and film, and feminist/queer pedagogy.